The Old Vicarage

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SY 0885 7/201

OTTERTON ROPERS LANE The Old Vicarage

(Formerly listed as Coleshayes)

II House, former vicarage. Circa 1840. Plastered brick or stone rubble walls; brick stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts; slate roof. T-plan house.

The front block faces south west and contains the principal rooms, one each side of the central entrance hall and staircase. Both these rooms have rear lateral stacks. Two room plan rear block projecting at right angles from rear centre. End stack and integral outshoot behind. Kitchen and service room in angle of front and rear blocks behind the front left (north east) room. Two storeys with attics to front block.

Symmetrical three-window front around the central doorway. Six-panel door and fanlight with radial glazing bars, panelled reveals and flat-roofed stucco porch with round-headed outer arch flanked by square columns containing panels of rustication and a moulded entablature. Doorway is flanked by canted bay windows containing front twelve-pane sashes and narrow side sashes. First floor has central twelve-pane sash flanked by large tripartite sashes containing twelve-pane sashes. These windows have moulded architraves and hoodmoulds supported on scroll consoles. There is a plat band at first floor level and stucco quoins on the end corners. Deep eaves carried on shaped brackets. Low pitch roof is hipped each end. The right end contains French windows under an elliptical head containing radial glazing bars. Hipped dormers containing casements with glazing bars each end of front block. The right (south west) side of rear block is similar to the front with a two-window front of sixteen-pane sashes. The rear outshot this side contains a six-panel door and its roof is hidden by a parapet. The kitchen block has a roof parallel to the rear block and has ground floor casements and a first floor sixteen-pane sash. Interior includes a good deal of original detail. The joinery includes an open string stair with stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SY0821085137